The Intelligencer Ames Story County Iowa
The Intelligencer issued Thursdays at Ames Story County Iowa b R F LL C Hudson.
26 Jul 1894
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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1894
Page
1
The Intelligencer issued Thursdays at Ames Story County Iowa b R F LL C Hudson.
The Minneapolis Times warns that the United States faces industrial unrest and mob violence if courts remain weak. It argues the law must be enforced against labor mobs to prevent a descent into chaos and revolutionary violence.
Des Moines July 24. Congressman J A T Hull was renominated by the Republicans of the Seventh district this afternoon. The item highlights the renomination and notes the local political scene as part of weekly notices for Hawkeye readers.
Judge Hatch, age 70, who was injured falling from a bridge last fall, died at his Mc Gregor home. He had served on the bench for 12 years in West Unix, Ia.
The president approved an act authorizing construction of a bridge across the Mississippi River from Eagle Point Dubuque to the opposite bank in Grant County Wisconsin.
Reports from the eastern and southern portions of Iowa state that rainstorms in the last two days saved corn that was in serious danger from drought.
Frank Parks, 13, dozed beneath a way car in the Burlington yards at Pacific Junction on July 21. The car was switched, his left foot was run over, and doctors amputated the foot.
Kansas Pacific bondholders sue in New York to recover 11 million dollars in bonds and to remove George Gould and Russell Sage from Kan sas Pacific trusteeship. Also reports July 24 arrests in Round Pond and other incidents including fires, shipwrecks, labor activity, and various local notices.
Pes more saiPr SSB Laumer aged 1 attempted suicide after Miss Kate Gelay refused marriage. He swallowed carbolic acid but was saved by prompt treatment with the young lady aiding physicians.
City Marshal Cavendar was beaten about the head by William Grecian in Washington Iowa. Cavendar lies unconscious with faint hopes of recovery. Grecian is jailed awaiting developments.
An unprecedented hot wave sweeps southeast Iowa and adjacent states with temperatures rising to 80 degrees in 10 hours. A hot wind damages crops and pasturage across the region, according to Hawkeye reports from BurLIN Gton and surrounding areas.
Dubuque Iowa residents see a directory listing 16 238 names after deducting 750 firms. Extrapolations by single and quadruple multipliers imply populations of about 40 000 and 65 000 respectively.
John Krout the third Ridpath murderer was released by Judge Balliet on district attorney Davis motion. Krout turned state's evidence and his testimony led to the conviction and death sentences of George Weems and John Hammil.
The president sent nominations to the senate naming Charles H. Robinson of Iowa as pension agent at Des Moines Louis F. Pearson as agent for Pottawattamie and Great Nemaha agencies in Kansas and Edward H. Hunter as postmaster at Des Moines Iowa.
The Chicago Packing and Provision company, a leading corporation, has gained control of the Silberhorn packing house in Sioux City Iowa. Idle since local financial trouble it will reopen with a daily capacity of 3500 hogs and 500 cattle, restoring a major local meat facility.
Nearly all delegates are in Des Moines as about 30 candidates seek nominations. Eleven want attorney general. McFarland named for secretary of state McCarthy for auditor Granger and Deemer likely to win supreme court seats by acclamation. Others compete for remaining offices.
Martin Crow has spent 18 years in the county jail awaiting an insanity examination. Grand juries urged release but failed. Insanity commissioners finally checked his case and moved him to Independence asylum after finding he was insane on the point that his father is not dead.
Ed Williamson of Afton, a leader of a westwide green goods gang, was arrested in Indianola by Deputy U S Marshal W A Richards of Stuart. The arrest ends a long-running federal case against the conspirators.
The Des Moines telegraphic report notes the Iowa crop bulletin showing the drought unchanged with showers on the 19th and 20th providing only temporary relief in about a third of the state. Livestock lack feed and water as pastures burn and unharvested crops reach critical stages. corn statewide declines continue, with severe damage in the burnt district and broader losses in potatoes flax millet and grass.
New York July 14. Baring Magoun Co shipped 500000 in gold to Europe engaged at the sub treasury. This, with 1500000 taken from the gold reserve last Friday, reduces the total to about 60500000. A banker warns of possible actions by capitalists and calls for swift admin action. Foreign exchange rises with more shipments expected.
Omaha July 25 The Knights of Labor executive board discussed Nebraska politics. State Master Workman d Allemand advised and the body resolved to lend the order’s influence to the Populists. Organizers will be sent statewide with the Populist committee to mobilize wage workers and farmers for November elections.
In Emigration canyon ten miles from Salt Lake City a gold ore discovery yields over $100 per ton, triggering a frenzy of staking. Locals report widespread excitement as new claims go up and prospectors rush to the area.
Wheat prices firm with July and cash demand, while September slipped after Toledo shipment rumors. Corn and oats posted small gains and provisions rose slightly. South Omaha cattle, hogs, and sheep prices showed varied moves with steady to higher tendencies. A Missouri story notes a jail escape attempt by John Barlow after a five year sentence. Minnesota penitentiary twine stock sold, demand outstrips production.
The report covers Senate clashes over the tariff bill with leaders like Gorman and Hill in July and July 21 sessions, plus a lengthy Arctic dispatch about Wellman expedition concerns, Professor Oyen’s distress on Dane’s Island, and Captain Fielden’s救 efforts.
Two murderers were found hanging near a tree in Cormorant Mississippi. A separate disorder at a Watkinsville Kentucky festival left George Vinegar dead, Charles Edwards mortally wounded, and four others injured.
In Wil Ciesen Alabama near Coalburg on July 25 two deputy sheriffs were killed and two wounded when officers attempted to arrest George Hudson amid the Pratt mines riot. The Hudson men fled to the woods as troops arrive to assist a large sheriff’s force.
United States Marshal McDermott brought to Salt Lake City all of the leading strikers at Lima Mon. The dispatch reports a roundup as authorities move to detain key labor organizers.
The German Methodist church recently remodeled at Beardstown Indiana was seated for a town celebration marking the fiftieth anniversary of German Methodists in Beardstown.
An Iowa druggist promotes Metzger’s Lightning Colic Cure, telling a traveling seller’s tale of a horse relieved from spasmodic colic within twenty minutes. The buyer, an old man from ten miles away, buys all the medicine after claiming he would pay to save a horse on a long trip. The New Metzger Medicine Co. of Decorah, Iowa, markets the product. Ames dealer H. D. Miller sells it locally.
The North Western Line offers round trips to Ashbury Park New Jersey for July and August. Tickets on sale July 7 and 8. Information available from Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
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